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Former popstar turned novelist Giles Kristian really hit the spot with his debut, Raven: Blood Eye, and now the Norseman with the mysterious past is back for another outing – with added guts and gore. In his first book, Kristian out-Cornwelled the master of this kind of writing, but the challenge for any pretender to [...] […]

George Mann’s The Osiris Ritual is the second book in the Newbury and Hobbes series.  We return once again to Victoria’s England, well Victoria’s England with a steampunk twist and a distinct possibility of zombie invasion.  Mann’s 1901 England is filled with steam powered cars, robot servants, and a distinct sense of more being possible [...] […]